Qualifications

Membership of professional associations

Australian Association of Political Science.

Area of study

Australian StudiesInternational RelationsPolitics

Brief profile

Judy Brett joined La Trobe in 1989 to teaching and research Australian politics and political history. She is committed to engaged political research, bringing the fruits of her enquiry to the general public through books written for a broad general readership and through the media. Currently she. She retired at the end of 2013 and is currently working on a new biography of Alfred Deakin and writes regularly for The Monthly on contemporary politics. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.

Brett, J. (2007) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (preprint version [PDF 83KB]): any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.) This is a revised edition with new Introduction, Melbourne University Press. First published 1992, Macmillan, Melbourne. Winner 1993 Ernest Scott prize for best book of Australasian History, the 1993 Victorian Premier's Prize for Australian Studies. Shared the 1993 NSW Premier's prize for non-fiction.

Brett, J. (2007) ‘The Country, the City and the State in the Australian Settlement’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.42, No.1: 1-17. (Preprint version [PDF 98KB]): any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden.)

Brett, J. (2002) 'Class, Party and the Foundations of the Australian Party System: A Revisionist Interpretation', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol.37, No.1: 39-56.

Brett, J. (2009) 'The Inter-war Foundations of Australian Political Science', in R.A.W. Rhodes The Australian Study of Politics', Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

Brett, J. (2009) 'The fortunes of my own little band': The Dilemma of Deakin and the Liberal Protectionists', in P. Strangio and N. Dyrenfurth (eds) Confusion: The Making of the Australian Two-Party System, Melbourne University Press, pp.23-44.

Brett, J. (2003) ‘The Tasks of Political Biography’, in Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds) History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press. Republication of revised version of an essay first published in Judith Brett (ed.) Political Lives, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997.